CADILLAC — Arguably the most successful inventor to come out of the Cadillac area in the last 150 years is Ephraim Shay, whose eponymous locomotive design forever changed the logging
An hour’s drive south of the Mackinac Bridge, a 67,000-acre patch of state forest known as Chandler Hills offers a stunning glimpse of how Michigan appeared in 1800, before a century of logging left much of the state looking like a moonscape.
The hiss of wind coursing through towering hardwoods and the gurgle of a brook that bursts forth from a ravine are often the only sounds in the densely wooded forest.